Flexible Retirement Planner Support Forum

Thanks for checking into it.

Yes, that was a typo. Meant to type ".jar". And thanks for the edit. Just to be clear, for purposes of using the JAVA console I launch FRP via the .jnlp file. The JAVA console does not appear when launching FRP with the .jar file. Also, I do not have to "force quit" while waiting for the FRP window ...

Apologies for the delay. It took me a little while to figure out the JAVA console, but once past that, this is what I found. The JAVA console provides the below text in blue. Unfortunately none of the debug features ("dump thread list", etc) function when the FRP window fails to appear. I can, howev...

The OP did not reply, but perahaps the behavior I am seeing form my mac will shed some light, While I can run FRP on a Macbook pro running OSX 10.10.5 (Yosemite), it typically takes 2-5 tries before the FRP window appears. Updating to 4.2.2 changed nothing. I believe this started when I updated to Y...

doh! That's embarrassing. I actually did that calculation, but went too quickly and did not catch a (now) obvious mistake.

Thanks so much for your help, and the wonderful tool. Will proceed more deliberately from this point forward.

I neglected to mention that the spending policy was set to "stable". I tried setting retirement spending to zero, and the portfolio value at retirement then shows $1,085,000, which is what I expected. Guess that narrows my question down to how the $50,000 annual retirement spending is handled. If I ...

Thank you for providing such a flexible tool. I experimented with a number of scenarios to get a feel for the output and am now back to basics to make sure I understand how the planner works. My approach was to start simple and add complexity/variables one at a time to see the effects. Unfortunately...